Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Aside from some accident to the Chiangs the Japanese hope that the strong anti-Communist group in Chungking will become synonymous with a peace movement, that the old politicians will become traitors or appeasers-in short that the pattern of France will be repeated...
Heir to the blood of the fathers is Meier Borsht, tradesman, the vicissitudes of whose strong-witted life follow the pattern of his dark-bearded ancestors, whose adventures and generations Robert Neumann relates with prodigal invention...
Against this pattern of shifting loyalties the refusal of many Americans to rally to the "defense" of traditional American values can more readily be understood. Harvard Seniors, and countless thousands who feel as they feel, do not oppose necessary defense measures for America if they are necessary and only for defense. They want a democratic arms program, by selective conscription if necessary; not the building up of an amateur and priggish military caste which will exert a tremendous pressure for war. They want a pan-American solidarity based on democracy--not a hemisphere defense program superimposed on commercial exploitation...
Weygand had his men disposed flexibly in depth-the approved "accordion" pattern of defense against mechanized power. Behind the front line were carefully camouflaged batteries of anti-tank and heavy machine guns, spaced fairly widely down the valley and highway pathways of assault. Successive, deeper rows of similar weapons were spaced more & more closely until they were backed finally by batteries of 75-mm. field guns, weapons able to knock out heaviest tanks when fired pointblank. The defense plan was to let heavy tanks push back into this final network, to have the advance units destroy motorcycles, armored cars, troop...
...many readers were offended by a sentence in this column which, without explanation, dismissed the Brahms symphonies as "academic exercises". What I meant by the statement is this: when one listens to a Tchaikowski symphony, such as the Fourth or Fifth, one follows easily and clearly the tonal pattern. Contrasting themes grow naturally out of each other, and there is a sense of inevitability about the working-out of material, a smooth flow and a feeling for clarity and balance. One gets none of this feeling from a symphony like the Brahms First. Here there is no free flow...